And the people who fell therein came from a…Hailed those of…as came there
Hailing the standard as it passed… …the lattice of rows…harkening
to… the mixture of colors…of the banners …the standards being reformed…thereby
…to be parted…and this being thus…the cause of the assemblage… and lo
every man of them trembled … foreknowing in their bones…
that…and the lord resolved herself to chasten them of their iniquity…
of the seer who rose to… as if from great distances … speaking full on
through ... the heat of the day, and the quick of them made as to break
from the midst... greeted at the edge by
the dead, lying as they had fallen … and the seer perceived them
despite their being at the far edge of the gathering,
a gathering of all the tribes, filling the valley there called … since…
and the seer spoke to them direct, in a low voice,
saying beware yon corpses oh faithful ones,
do not touch them so as to dress them
or dig so as to bury them, for they are
hateful to your Lord, they are to be
as a warning, forever.
(And the seer did not say this aloud, but her mind was troubled by a buzzing,
‘generations of generations from now the poses of those dead will be holy yoga
to the idolatrous ...(and she knew ... as much as she was shown
so much more was hidden, ... the warp and weave of the lord oppressed her
as hot, a tangled bramble) (and later … she understood that even this
was something shown to her))
And the quick of them turned down their eyes where they stood
came back into the assembly
amazement spread through the crowd, the proof of the lord
in her voice that had been heard and bade
from so far off though she but whispered…
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